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THE YEAR IS 1890 AND SPAIN IS THE SOL SOLAR SYSTEM.
Further advances in the Trans-Newtonian sciences were achieved in the year 1850, unlocking the final key required to start building faster than light Ships for the Spanish Navy of Space! However it was decided that first the technology should be further advanced before building ships, for example making the engines faster and more fuel efficient. As such the first ship to be built using the new trans-newtonian principles was first completed in 1880, using a MK I Nuclear Pulse Engine and equipped with geo survey devices in order to search for other concentrations of the TN metals throughout the rest of the solar system. It was christened the Santa Maria.
Eventually it completed mapping out most of the solar system, but the situation didn't look good. Earth was due to run out of several vital resources, such as Mercassium in a few years and not many of these metals had been discovered on other planets. Mining colonies had been established on Mars, Venus, Triton and two Asteroids, along with mass drivers to shoot the resources back to earth, but this would but temporarily sate the endless appetite of the Spanish Industrial Engine, little dribbles of resources that really only made it hungrier. As such the finest geologists Spain had to offer were sent out to search for any other overlooked deposits of what had in a few years become the lifeblood of the Spanish Industry.
For the rest of Spain had been busy during the laborious research and exploration of the rest of the solar system. All of Spain's pre-TN industry had been converted into the improved, more efficient versions made possible by the principles of TN technology and some advances in the field of Civilian Economics had also been made, further strengthening the burgeoning economy. Indeed, several terraforming installations had also been built to combat the cooling of the sun by releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Sadly it seemed that only Venus was currently a option for colonization in the Sol Solar system, all the other planets being too cold, research on possible methods of rapid travel to other systems through so called "jump points" what have to be speeded up, for time was running out for Spain. Soon Earth would be too cold to live on, even with the greenhouse gases being constantly pumped into the air, for eventually the air would become to thick to breath if more greenhouse gases were pumped into the air, suffocating Earth's inhabitants.
With resource shortages and a rapidly approaching literal deadline, Spain needed a miracle and it needed it soon.
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Topic: The Spanish Empire, IN SPACE (Read 2448 times)